Abstract This paper examines "Same14 Stickam AVI 3," a compact audiovisual artifact representative of early-to-mid 2000s user-generated livestream and archival culture. Through technical description, content and stylistic analysis, provenance reconstruction, and cultural interpretation, I argue that such artifacts illuminate transitions in platform affordances, amateur aesthetics, and the participatory logics that shaped contemporary social media. The piece also considers preservation challenges and ethical issues in researching ephemeral online media.

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